Unfortunately this kind of “protest” doesn’t do anyone any good. Colchester is a good 30 miles away from Peasenhall, and its not as if there aren’t animal rights campaigners here (some are in fact friends of mine). Even telephoning a school when you do not need to creates extra stress/hassle as their secretaries and PABX’s can only handle so many calls and those circuits are needed to keep the kids safe.
The school is perfectly within its rights to breed pigs provided it keeps to Defra rules like any other pig farmer, they are also teaching kids that some people are vegetarian/vegan and others have faiths prohibiting the consumption of pigmeat, and it may even encourage more some of the kids to limit their meat consumption when they have shared their space with their food when it was still alive..
I can understand folk protesting against crappy factory farms and mystery meat processing facilities but targeting a primary school is an own goal IMO…
A Suffolk primary school with 25 pupils has received 400 emails of protesters against its scheme to rear three pigs.
Peasenhall Primary School is teaching the “provenance of food” by having children look after the animals before they are sent for slaughter.
A spokesperson for the school said some of the emails were “foul and abusive”.
Protesters Colchester Animal Defenders said “slaughtering any animal for food” was “not necessary”.
Liza Moore, head of Colchester Animal Defenders, encouraged people to call the school to voice their concerns but distanced herself from any abusive comments.
BBC News – Pig rearing school ‘bombarded’ by protest emails
(more about the pig breedsng scheme here)
Peasenhall: Primary school
